The most powerful digital camera ever built has released its first pictures of the universe. Beautiful galaxies shine in the images that show a vast picture of colourful nebulae and stars. They come ...

At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until it didn’t. Inside the newly built Vera C. Rubin Observatory, site project scientist Sandrine ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. Reading time: Reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the ...

"To do the bread-and-butter part of our job, as a scientist, the numbers that you send out have to really be well-measured, well-understood," Ajhar said. "And that takes a lot of time." Original ...

The $571-million National Science Foundation and Department of Energy facility on top of the summit of Cerro Pachon in Chile is still in commissioning and set to begin the 10-year Legacy Survey of ...